This spread and gained approval by the Master General of the Order.

Priors, priors provincial, and masters general of the Order are all elected for specific terms.

The first systematic attempt at reform was made under the direction of John of Wildeshausen, the fourth master general of the order.

Grand Chancellor, the Master General of the Order of Preachers.

Natalis' tenure as master general of the Order was focused on removing the corruption prevalent in the Dominican Order.

In 1240, the incumbent Master General of the Order, Raymond of Penyafort, resigned the office.

In 1264 a new Master General of the Order of Preachers was elected, John of Vercelli.

He founded a house in Paris attached to the church of St. Maturinus, which afterwards became famous under Robert Guguin, master general of the order.

The invited speaker was an English Dominican priest, Fr Timothy Radcliffe, former Master General of the Order.

In 1926, despite his plea to be relieved of such great responsibility, Paredes was elected by the General Chapter as Master General of the Order.

Murry was awarded the Magister Sacrae Theologiae by the Master General of the Order on September 20, 2011.

First as Prior Provincial of Lombardy and then as Master General of the Order, Raymond undertook the restoration of Dominican religious life.

On the highest level, an annual chapter general, composed of provincial priors every third year and at other times by provincial diffinitors, elected and controlled the master general of the order.

Prior John drew up a proposed renewal of the Order which gained the approval of Antonio Caxal, the Master General of the Order, on 24 September 1414.

This document is sent to the Master General of the Order of Preachers, who communicates the act to the competent authorities of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas.

Various sources are particularly important, especially the works of Raymond of Capua, who was Catherine's spiritual director and close friend from 1374 until her death, and himself became Master General of the Order in 1380.

First as Prior Provincial of northern France (1291) and then as Master General of the Order of Preachers (in 1292) he tried to lead the Order back to the original severity of its ideal.

In 1637 the Master General of the Order of Preachers, Niccolò Ridolfi, appointed Mazzarino as Vicar of the Province of Rome, and in April 1638 he was elected as Provincial.

In 1908 when the College was transformed it into the Collegium Pontificium Internationale Angelicum Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier bestowed upon it his personal motto as Master General of the Order of Preachers, caritas veritatis.

The Palazzina di caccia di Stupinigi, a hunting lodge built on the grand scale, was designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra for Vittorio Amedeo II in the latter's role as Grand Master General of the order.

The Master of the Order thus offered an opportunity to lay people and secular clergy, who had been independent until then, to adopt a rule of life and to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Dominican Order, by making a promise of obedience to the Master General of the Order.